Global Annual Results Report 2024: Goal Area 5
Every child, including adolescents, has access to inclusive social protection and lives free from poverty
Highlights
The Global Annual Results Report on Goal Area 5 of the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-2025 presents results of its social policy and social protection programme, covering two result areas: reducing child poverty and ensuring access to inclusive social protection.
Goal Area 5 is intended to ensure that every child, including adolescents, has access to inclusive social protection and lives free from poverty. UNICEF’s commitments under Goal Area 5 contribute to furthering realization of the right to social security and to an adequate standard of living, as set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting acceleration of progress across child-specific SDGs, particularly 1 and 10, and also 2-5, 8, 11, 16 and 17. In the Strategic Plan period 2022-2025,
In the third year of its Strategic Plan 2022–2025, UNICEF has surpassed or is close to its targets across Goal Area 5. This testifies to organizational commitment at all levels, and the impact of critical partnerships leveraged.
Headline results:
- A total of 91 countries reported having strengthened social sector budgets for greater and better investments in children, up from 84 in 2023 and UNICEF leveraged financing from international and private sector resources for children in 85 countries, up from 71 in 2023.
- A total of 88 countries reported having moderately strong or strong systems, reflecting a 10 per cent increase from 2023. Over 170 million children across 102 million households were reached with cash transfers supported by UNICEF, in both development and humanitarian contexts.
